RE: Is This a Web Service?

I would be a lot happier about requiring SOAP than WSDL because that
would include ebXML, and I would be extremely unhappy if we put that
outside the entire WS fence.  I still think my simple example is a Web
service, but would be willing to join a consensus that it is not.  I
don't think it's a real big deal either way.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Webber [mailto:jim.webber@arjuna.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 10:24 AM
To: www-ws-arch@w3.org; www-ws-arch-request@w3.org
Subject: RE: Is This a Web Service?



Roger:

> Do other people think that if it doesn't use WSDL it's not a
> Web service?  I personally don't like this at all.

Nor do I, but then I have the seemingly contrarian view that SOAP is
implicitly involved :-) (and not necessarily anything to do with the
Web).

While I can appreciate that this group does not necessarily have to have
a commercially-facing outlook, we are at risk of marginalisation if the
architecture fragments into X different flavours of Web services. 

Jim